Thursday the first EU LCS games will be played and you will see points start to accumulate on your players. The first week will conclude with the last NA LCS game on Sunday.

1. I'd love to watch me some Cow streaming.  Pretty sure you could enjoy some popularity if you worked at it, if you're willing to teach the game a little bit and talk about why you're doing this etc.  Streamers seem to get viewers by either: trolling Kaceytron style, boobs, being really really really good, being funny/having a good personality.  There aren't that many out there who are willing or able to teach the game while they play, so being a 'Diamond Nightblue' is a neglected market IMO.

2. Getting kinda pumped for Ranked.  Going to try and prioritize my roles this season instead of being 'that filler guy' and see how it goes.  I want to still be prepared to play all roles decently but typing Supp->ADC->Top->Jungle->Mid in champ select is the plan right now.  Want to have a wide variety of bot lane champs to balance out what the team comp needs but just have one or two A-/B+ champs that are hard to counter in the other roles.  Also going to just solo it unless Karl or Hedgie want to get some games in, since it feels like they have their game management knowledge dialed which is where I feel weakest and our roles sync well. Hooking up with randoms who I had good games with didn't have great results.

Anyone else got some plans to get to the next level?  Pacov, still waiting for that Road To Diamond Vlog or post.  

3. Stoked on my Riot gift:  The Mighty Jax!  You guys?

I have was gifted void terror fizz from riot. Maybe they are telling me to learn assassins although its totally not my play style.

Thanks for the words of encouragement for streaming. I was looking at desks yesturday and didn't really see anything I liked on craigslist. Monitor wise I would probably just get another copy of the ACER I have since its been good to me. Funds are a little tight with the Hawaii trip, Christmas credit card bills and student loans starting to hit. Maybe next pay check I could seriously start thinking about it.

Man - I'd flat out lie and adjust that list so supp isn't the 1st thing listed.  If I'm not feeling confident for w/e reason, that's when I'd offer up support directly (as that's kind of my fall back role that I can play well if I'm not dicking about).  If I see someone list things the way you did, I'm going to try to put that guy in support - which might be fine, but not my preference anyway.

We should all maybe try to shoot for getting in a couple of ranked games a night.  I don't think many of us have the time to blitz through provisionals.  From what I've been reading, the weighting is MUCH nicer.  Plat V goes 9/1 moves to plat III.  Diamond V goes 4/6 goes to Plat I.  Seems like the negative impact has been lessened - ESPECIALLY if you factor in that the diamond V example would have been lowered to Plat I or so with the soft reset.  So, even if things go poorly, it doesn't sound like you'll have to grind up from silver or anything.

I'm going to try to get lissandra whenever possible and ride that train - hoping she isn't banned and I get pick order - pretty sure I can carry very well with her. 

heh... I honestly don't even recollect.  If I get fired up/inspired, I'll make a vid or something. 

el tigre braum has been unleashed.

And riot's primetime show is going live tonight at 8pm est.

That primetime show should be pretty awkward. I am definitely going to try to catch that tonight.

yah - me as well. some of those promos... oi...

hotfix patch was deployed today - ranked is now live on NA after reset

fix notes

Maokai

• WHOOPS Fixed a bug where Maokai could become an untargetable wisp through magical tree magic

Kalista

• BUGFIX Kalista should once again be able to reliably trigger the hop effect of Passive - Martial Poise at high attack speeds

Zz'Rot Portal

• BUGFIX Fixed an issue where Voidspawn were gaining massively increased damage if the portal's owner was disconnected

Lich Bane

• BUGFIX Fixed a bug where Lich Bane's on-hit proc damage was scaling with ability power at roughly half strength

Update/correction - Prime time league is today at 3pm PST - eg 6PM EST!

30 min away

NOBODY TELL HUNNY ABOUT PIGLET, IT WILL BE OUR LITTLE SECRET.

I am already aware of Kori.

very glad I didn't jump into ranked right away like I was thinking of doing tonight.  Played several games and had exactly 2 decent games and the rest just smeh with me being a derp.  Gotta say I love blitz as a support now.  Easily my fav support atm. 

I got that braum skin and then remembered why I don't like braum.  Cool skin, but its either folks don't respond as well as they should to the passive procs and I end up being a goon and have my shield pointing the wrong way.  Like with leona, its crystal clear, we are going in on a hard engage if I land my combo. With braum, I need my adc to work with me a little more.  I think there' quite a bit of potential there, but you'd prob need a really good adc and alot of work with the combo to maximize it.

Also, fug kalista.  Riots doing 2 really dumb things - 1 buffing her already... 2 apparently the zz portal is getting buffed. That's kind of nuts.

Well I ended the night going 4-4. Not what I wanted but really dumb teammates in my brand game, a fiddle that got way out of control in another. Renekton didn't go so well either. I couldn't kill jayce in lane so we both just farmed and he had a bigger impact in team fights. The annie on the other team that was playing mid completely shut down the akali on my team. Had to win when annie's get really big. Hopefully I can 2-0 the rest of the games. 

Hard*

The hype is that folks going 9/1 and folks going 1/9 aren't seeing huge swings in their placement.  Odds are if you blow the next 2 games you still might be diamond V. 

zz portal example of cheese team doing cheese things. 

vod of PTL episode 1